Contribution envelope



L. R. SWETT. CONTRIBUTION E NVELOPE. APPLICATION FILED MAY26. 1921.

1,412,496, Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

UNITED STATES LYMAN R. SWETT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CONTRIBUTION ENVELOPE.

Application filed May 26, 1921.

T o aZZ whom it may conce/m:

Be it. known that I, LYMAN R. Swn'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Contribution Envelopes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to contribution envelopes, whichV are employed b many churches to be used by their members during a year in making regular Sabbath contributions.

The envelopes which are generally used are dated giving the month, day and year so that each envelope represents a certain Sunday of a year and these envelopes are issued to the church members at the beginning ot each year.

It has been found that this method is not entirely satisfactory and is also very expensive because the church must order suliicient quantities of the envelopes, which come in cartons containing fifty two or i'ifty three envelopes, according to the number of Sundays or' a year, to supply each of the present members and to allow for new members coming into the church during the year.

The eXtra sets or cartons of envelopes are either a partial or total loss, because if they are not used during the year they cannot be used during the following year they are dated fora specific year. Then again, when a carton is given a new member during the year, all of the envelopes not used prior to the time the carton is accepted by the new member must be destroyed.v

lt is the object and intent-ion of the present invention to overcome this condition. By reference to the accompanying drawing Figure 1 illustrates an envelope of the twin pocket type having printed thereon Fiscal Sunday Number 52. The term Fiscal Sunday means that it is a Sunday of a fiscal year. Figure 2 shows another envelope having a slightly different phrase, namely, 14th Sunday of our Fiscal yeaim-printed thereon.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

Serial No. 472,682.

These phrases are preferably printed on each envelope, so that a phrase will be on each pocket, and as shown in Figure l, the printed matter appears twice. 0f course, when a single or three pocket envelope is employed the phrase will occur on the envelope as often as there are pockets.

With a set of titty-two or titty-three envelopes, each representing a Sunday olf a year, and consecutively numbered, it is evident that the fiscal year may begin with any month of the year and any Sunday. It when ordering, a greater supply is ordered than is issued to the congregation during the year, the sets of envelopes remaining may be used for the next or succeeding year. y

Should vthe envelopes be issued to all of the parishioners for a year beginning with the lirst Sunday in the month of: May, and later on new members become aiiliated with the church and desire a set or package of envelopes, a set could be furnished and the year or this member begun with the Sunday following the issuance of the set of envelopes. Y

Nith envelopes having these phrases it is possible to print them in greater quantities so that the churchesmay be furnished with as large or as small a supply desired at any time, and at a greatly reduced cost than is possible with the present method of printing. It has been determined that a saving in the costs will range from 25% to 40% according to the size of the order, or number oi sets of envelopes ordered.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: Y

A package or set of contribution envelopes including a number of envelopes representing the Sundays of a fiscal year, and each envelope consecutively numbered to correspond to the Sundays of the iscal yea-r.

LYMAN R. SWETT. 

